Nafe (Kwamera)

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Wahe Martial

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Speaker: Martial wahe

v coupe mes cheveux

(Bislama) katem hair blo mi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

v allez ailleure

(Bislama) go lo we

Speaker: Martial Wahe

v faire la lecture.

(Bislama) mi ridim book

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Chanos chanos via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Tony Morris, License: CC BY-NC 2.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Myiagra caledonica marinae, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

genre de coquillage

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photos by Byron Chin / Flickr, License: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 via Flickr

Scientific name: Acridotheres tristis, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Coix lacryma-jobi, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Epinephelus coeruleopunctatus via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Ian Shaw / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Bodianus loxozonus via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Fruits edible when ripe. For dengue fever, take 1 bundle of leaves and stems, mash and place in pot with 2 L water, boil 30 minutes, drink warm. Drink 1 liter 1x day for 4-6 days depends on strength of dengue. "Sends" dengue out from your body.

Scientific name: Physalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[kwankukepu] n.

Example: The vine of this plant is used to tie an outrigger on to a canoe. Heat up the stem and peel off the outer bark; while it is still warm use it to tie an outrigger to the canoe. When the stem cools it becomes very hard. It is also used to tie sugar cane.

Scientific name: Smilax vitiensis, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

n. mon rein

Speaker: Martial wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n étincelle (de feu)

Speaker: Martial wahe

n gibbeuse croissant (phase de lune)

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Anne Hoggett / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Myripristis adusta via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Andy A. Lewis / Lizard Island Research Station, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron spiniferum via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by Jeffrey T. Williams / Smithsonian Institution, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Sargocentron tiereoides via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

n ma côte

Speaker: Martial wahe

le reve

(Bislama) dream

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: When performing the kastom ceremony "toka dance" the leaves are wrapped in a band and tied on the head of dancers.

Scientific name: Alpinia, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Children from Tanna and throughout Vanuatu use this plant to make a slingshot. As a "medicine," when chickens are ruining your garden, if you plant this plant it will chase away the chickens.

Scientific name: Ervatamia orientalis, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Used for house posts, rafters, and other construction-- very good for building in Tanna. Scrape the stem and put the pieces into a cup. Squeeze these pieces through with water, pour into a glass, and give to someone with heavy menstrual bleeding. 1 stem used to fill a cup, and drink one liter a day for one week. It is thought that shark meat causes bleeding. This will solve that. This plant is called "medicine of the shark".

Scientific name: Melicope, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Agricultural: When in flower, taro (Nerei) is said to be ready for harvest.

Scientific name: Metrosideros collina, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Hunting: The wood of the tree is used, as the body of a spear, to hunt fishes and turtles. To fashion the spear, an appropriate length of wood is cut, debarked, heated (to straighten) and then topped with an iron point. Note: Iaruman is the name of the male form of this plant. Prane is the female form of this plant.

Scientific name: Rapanea amischocarpa, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

[maka:rwa] n.

Example: Hunting: Flying foxes are attracted to this plant for their red fruits. As a result, hunters gather around this plant when they desire to hunt the flying fox.

Scientific name: Piper austrocaledonicum, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Example: Kastom medicine to ascertain the type of sickness a person has. Take two small 6 in. long branches with leaves, and place this on the person along with another unspecified plant. Will help diagnosis.

Scientific name: Breynia disticha, Speaker: Martial Wahe

l’oublie

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[ne̤wo] n.

Example: Used to treat pain. When a baby has an injection in the hospital, such as a vaccine, people take 1 handful of leaves, boil in a small amount of water to concentrate the resulting "juice" that comes out of the leaves, and put this fluid on the site of the pain, the injection, covering it with a leaf for 5-10 minutes, 2-3x daily until the baby stops crying.

Scientific name: Hibiscus tiliaceus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

[nɨŋgare̤me] n.

Example: This plant is known as "fishbone leaf" as the edge of the leaf tears away and the remaining part is serrated. It is a powerful medicine that is secret.

Scientific name: Leea indica, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

Example: Said to be good for roasting or frying in oil. This hard, sweet yam is said to be the best tasting of all

Scientific name: Dioscorea spp., Speaker: Johnson Noar

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Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial wahe

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Example: Photo by Martial Wahe

Scientific name: Melochia odorata, Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: When young boys are circumcized, the leaf is mashed and rubbed on the skin of the boys who are sleeping in the nakamal--and mix with coconut oil to help hold it on the body. Said to help the person have better, smoother skin.

Scientific name: Murraya, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

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Example: Collect young leaves and boil in water or fry it and eat as a cabbage. To cover fish for cooking, take petiole with many leaves and bend to cover fish and put in sauce pan. When cooked eat fish and leaves.

Scientific name: Polyscias cumingiana, Speaker: Martial Wahe

n mon pouce

Speaker: Martial wahe

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Example: Wood from this tree is good for making house posts, as it is very strong. The wood is considered as excellent firewood. To restore energy when a person is tired, chew the leaf, swallow the juice, and spit out the leaf--it will make the person feel better.

Scientific name: Syzygium malaccense, Speaker: Emmanuel Maasi

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Example: Leaf used to thatch house. Chew base of stem as sugar cane - it’s sweet.

Scientific name: Miscanthus sinensis, Speaker: Johnson Noar

Example: Photo by Mark Rosenstein / iNaturalist.org, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Pterocaesio trilineata via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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(Bislama) nantao

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Hypolimnas bolina via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-SA 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Chlorurus bleekeri via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Lethrinus harak via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

n perroquet

(Bislama) napoleon

Speaker: Martial Wahe

cooment vous en ? tout vas bien ?

(Bislama) osem wanem yufala oraet ?

Speaker: Martial Wahe

mort de rire.

(Bislama) det laf

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

hurler

(Bislama) singaot

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Chromodoris willani via inaturalist.org, Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

(Bislama) skin

Example: skin of something like banana, taro...

Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

[tʰãmijen] n.

Example: Fuel: Dry portions of this plant are used as firewood.

Scientific name: Pipturus argenteus, Speaker: Jean Pascal Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Example: Photo by ANFC, License: CC BY-NC 3.0 via Fishes of Australia

Scientific name: Naso lopezi via FishBase, Speaker: Martial Wahe

je dors maintenant.

(Bislama) mi stap silip nao.

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Scientific name: Crenimugil crenilabis via FishBase, Speaker: Chief Nalau Nasip & Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe

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Speaker: Martial Wahe

Speaker: Martial Wahe